Made You Inspired (12 Photos)

August 22, 2026

By Vidar

A tennis ball crashes through a wall. A red fire-safety fitting becomes E.T.’s eyes.

Elsewhere, a worker climbs into a painted tunnel, children scale a stack of books, a portrait draws on hundreds of women’s testimonies, and a glowing school mural says that everyone is a gem.

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🦉 THÉMIS & ORION — By AKHINE in Pleyber-Christ, France 🇫🇷

A woman looks upward from the narrow gable while an owl watches from above. AKHINE keeps most of the mural in grey, using curling lines and long feather-like forms to frame the figure.

💡 Nerd Fact: AKHINE’s own post identifies THÉMIS & ORION as a 2021 spray-painted work for MX Arts Tour inspired by the Popovy Sisters’ dolls. The mural has since been removed: Le Télégramme reported in May 2026 that it was erased following a municipal decision.

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🌸 Still Life Tower — By Fintan Magee in Bitola, North Macedonia 🇲🇰

Flowers, fruit, glass and a passport fill the facade. Magee takes a traditional still life and scales it up to the full height of the wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: The mural was unveiled on 29 November 2025 to mark 30 years of diplomatic relations between North Macedonia and Australia. Magee said he combined significant Macedonian and Australian flowers with national objects to tell a story connecting the two countries.

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⛏️ Hidden Tunnel — By Sipion in Callao, Lima, Peru 🇵🇪

Sipion uses the corner of the structure to create the illusion of a tunnel breaking through the wall. A worker appears to climb into the opening toward the warm light at the far end.

💡 Nerd Fact: Sipion identifies this as a commissioned work in Callao. On his own profile, the Lima-based artist says he works in painting, tattooing, digital sculpture and muralism.

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🎾 Crashing Tennis Ball — By Jan Is De Man in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

A giant tennis ball appears to smash through the brick wall, with painted chunks of masonry flying outward.

💡 Nerd Fact: The club’s official history dates its founding to 16 May 1925. The club says Jan Is De Man’s mural was unveiled during the July 2025 centenary celebration; later that day, the club received a Royal Medal of Honour.

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🐦 “Avocette élégante” — By VYRÜS in Oye-Plage, France 🇫🇷

An avocet stands in shallow painted water with both wings raised. The bird and its reflection take up only part of the pale gable; most of the wall is left empty.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Platier d’Oye National Nature Reserve is in the same commune. Oye-Plage’s municipal profile records 230 bird species there, including 90 nesting species; the pied avocet is one of nine nesting species at the reserve listed under the EU Birds Directive.

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👽 Phone Home — By 0036Mark in Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

0036Mark places E.T.’s pasted body beneath a red fire-safety fitting, using its two circular outlets as the character’s oversized eyes.

💡 Nerd Fact: In interviews, 0036Mark said the spot gave him the idea for the E.T. work. He also explained that his alias combines 0036—Hungary’s international dialing code—with his first name, Márk.

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⚜️ “Ceci n’est pas une femme” — By K2B Graff & Naja Calligraphie in Elbeuf, France 🇫🇷

The eight-metre portrait covers a pier of the Jean Jaurès Bridge. Golden calligraphy runs across the face.

💡 Nerd Fact: The artists made the mural for International Women’s Day after collecting more than 300 testimonies. The portrait represents no single person or story. It brings together women’s words, strengths and wounds.

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💎 “Joyau” / “Everyone is a Gem” — By Fabian Bane Florin in Bergerac, France 🇫🇷

A veiled figure sits inside a chamber of glowing crystals, holding a small light while blue and pink fabric spills across the wall.

💡 Nerd Fact: Fabian Bane Florin states that he painted Joyau at a Bergerac school for children with intellectual disabilities. He says the mural pushes back against quick labels and that every person has value.

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📚 “Les gamins de Belleville” — By SETH in Paris, France 🇫🇷

At 51 boulevard de Belleville, four children rise up the narrow facade, balancing on books, an umbrella and one another. One reads while another paints a small yellow sun.

💡 Construction Nerd Fact: Hypermur says the figure rising above the roof was built from twelve cut panels mounted on a welded aluminium frame. SETH painted the panels in a former garage in Arcueil before rope-access technicians installed them on the building.

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💋 Staying Positive — By SMOK in Edegem, Belgium 🇧🇪

Pink glasses, a blown kiss and one raised hand give this brick wall more energy than most motivational posters. SMOK’s larger-than-life granny has plenty of attitude.

💡 Nerd Fact: The granny came from a real encounter. Het Nieuwsblad reported that SMOK based her on an Edegem woman he caught illegally dumping rubbish. When he told her it was not allowed, she replied in dialect, “Der mag zoveel ni” — roughly, “So many things aren’t allowed.”

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✨ Steel Lace Figures — By Jean Martin in Saint Barth 🇧🇱

Jean Martin welds stainless-steel nuts into openwork human figures. In this group, four tall bodies face different directions while lines of metal rings trail from their heads and shoulders.

💡 Nerd Fact: The nuts are not ordinary hardware: Artists of St Barth says Martin uses the same high-grade stainless steel used to build superyachts. Galeries Bartoux says his post-classical divinities use 20,000 individually welded nuts.

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🍃 The Girl with the Ivy Hair — By Vinie Graffiti near Toulouse, France 🇫🇷

Vinie painted a girl’s face among layers of green leaves. Real ivy grows into the painted foliage above her, changing the girl’s hair with the weather and seasons.

💡 Nerd Fact: Street Art for Mankind says Vinie began painting graffiti in high school with Toulouse’s AH Crew, initially concentrating on lettering. After moving to Paris in 2007, she began developing the recurring female figure that became her signature.

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